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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.

Dick Cavett

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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
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Gibbon
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Richard Alva Cavett
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